%0 Journal Article %T Pluricanonical systems on surfaces with small K^2 %A Adrian Langer %J Mathematics %D 1998 %I arXiv %X We prove that the bicanonical system on a surface of general type with K^2=4 has no base components and describe clusters contracted by 4K_X for a numerical Godeaux surface and 3K_X for a numerical Campedelli surface. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9802099v1